Keynote speaker

Vinod khosla - India-American venture capitalist


Vinod Khosla is India - American venture capitalist. He is an influential personality in Silicon Valley. He was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and became a general partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in 1986. In 2004, Khosla formed his own firm Khosla Ventures. The firm has invested in bio-refineries for energy and gioplastics, solar, battery and other environmentally friendly technologies

Vinod Khosla was a co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems, where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors. Vinod serves on the boards of Agami, eASIC, Indian School of Business, Infinera, Kovio, Metricstream, Spatial Photonics, Xsigo and Zettacore.

Vinod holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, a Master's in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Vinod grew up dreaming of being an entrepreneur, despite growing up in an Indian Army household with no business or technology connections. Since age 16, when he first heard about Intel starting up, he dreamt of starting his own technology company.

Upon graduating with a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, he failed, at age 20, to start a soy milk company to service the many people in India who did not have refrigerators. He came to the US and got his Masters in Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University. His startup dreams attracted him to Silicon Valley where he got an MBA at Stanford University in 1980.

Upon graduation he was one of the three founders of Daisy Systems, which was the first significant computer aided design system for electrical engineers. The company went on to significant revenue, profits and an IPO, but Khosla, driven by the frustration of having to design the computer hardware on which the Daisy software needed to be built, started the standards based Sun Microsystems in 1982 to build workstations for software developers. At Sun he pioneered "open systems" and RISC processors. Sun was funded by long time friend and board member John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

In 1986 he switched sides and joined Kleiner Perkins where he was and continues to be a general partner of KPCB funds through KP X. There, through the years, with other partners, he took on Intel's monopoly with Nexgen/AMD (the only microprocessor to have significant success against Intel, sold to AMD for 28% of AMD), incubated the idea and business plan for Juniper to take on Cisco's dominance of the router market, to formulate the very early advertising based search strategy for Excite, and to transform the moribund telecommunications business and its archaic SONET implementations with Cerent (sold to Cisco for $7B), and many other ventures. He helped in creating value, having fun, succeeding, failing (remember Dynabook?) and driving impact in partnership with entrepreneur, and the partners at KPCB.

In 2004, Khosla, driven by the need for flexibility to accommodate four teenage children and a desire to be more experimental, to fund sometimes imprudent "science experiments", and to take on both "for profit" and for "social impact" ventures, formed khoslaventures, funded entirely with family funds. His goals remain the same - work and learn from fun and knowledgeable entrepreneurs, build impactful companies through the leverage of innovation, and spend time as a partnership making a difference. He has a passion for nascent technologies that can have a beneficial effect and economic impact on society.

Vinod's greatest passion is being a mentor to entrepreneurs, assisting entrepreneurs and helping them build technology based businesses. Vinod assists or serves on the boards of a number of the companies including EASIC (programmable ASIC platform), Infinera (optical communications), Kovio (printed electronics), Skyblue (internet PC), Spatial Photonics (Micromirror displays), Xsigo (datacenter switch), among others.

Khosla is a charter member of TiE, a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals founded in 1992 that now has more than forty chapters in nine countries. He is also a Founding Board member of the Indian School of Business. His current passion is Social Entrepreneurship with a special emphasis on Microfinance as a poverty alleviation tool. He is a supporter of many microfinance organizations in India and Africa. He has been experimenting with global housing. Vinod is also passionate about alternative energy, petroleum independence, and the environment. He can be reached at vk@khoslaventures.com.

 

 Bill Reichert - Managing Director of Garage Tech Venture

Bill Reichert has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and an operating executive. Since joining Garage in 1998, Bill has focused on early-stage information technology and materials science companies. He sits on the Boards of CaseStack, WhiteHat, ClearFuels, cFares, and ThermoCeramix. Prior to Garage, Bill was a co-founder or senior executive in several venture-backed technology startups, including Trademark Software, The Learning Company, and Academic Systems. Earlier in his career, he worked at McKinsey & Company, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., and the World Bank. Bill earned a B.A. at Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. He was a founding board member and a Chairman of the Churchill Club, and a Charter Member of the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs. Currently he is the Chairman of the Small Fund Roundtable of the VC Taskforce and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

Bob Fu-Yuan Lin 林富元 - Founder of Multi-Dimensional Venture Partners

Topic: "New Opportunities with New Business Models"
Abstract:
"As the Silicon Valley hi-tech industry evolves, two areas are recognized as the most attractive emerging opportunities: Energy and Healthcare. Then we gradually realized that these new opportunities require not just technologies and products. For each individual, the vertical skills now require the horizontal knowledge to balance. For each business, a successful deal requires much more than competitive products, it requires huge integration of multiple resources that are beyond our familiar territories. Is our life getting more complicated, or getting more fun?"

Bio:
Bob Lin is the founder of Multi-Dimensional Venture Partners, an angel venture group from Silicon Valley and Chairman of Healthlink Services, a nation-wide medical assistance company in China. He is also the Vice Chairman of SunPerfect Solar in US, an affiliate to one of the largest solar cell/panel manufacturers in Asia. He also co-founded and served as General Partner for Acorn Campus and Acorn Angels since mid 90’s. Bob has more than 25 years of angels and venture investment expertise with multiple IPOs. He also has long history of entrepreneurial start-up and international business, marketing, and management experiences. He was well known for launching investment for Avanti (IPO ’95 25x), AltiGen (IPO ‘97) and LightLogic (Sold to Intel for $400M ’01 for 100x). He was an early investor in Vertex Network (Sold to Mitel for $200M ’99, 20x), and MPS (IPO ’04 70x). He was also the co-founder of Pine Photonics (sold to Opnext ’03; IPO ‘07). His other portfolios include Fortinet,, Anda Network, MONDAY Tech (sold to Yahoo ‘08), … etc.
Bob has been a board director or advisor in the past and present to Pine Photonics of California, Monday Technologies (sold ’08), Greatland Electronics, and Luxnet, of Taiwan; EPIN Technologies, Kingstar Winning of China.

Bob is also the author of four top selling books in Asia: “Find Your Way To Success & Happiness” in 2003 (Top seller of the year); “Creating Value to Differentiate” in 2004 (Honored with the National Level Golden Book Award); as well as “Build Your Career From Where You Are”, best seller in 2005. His 4th book “It is easy to be super happy” became the top seller in late 2007. Bob is also the leading columnist for the largest business/investment newspaper in Taiwan “Economic Daily News”, and “Commercial Times” as well as many leading investment magazines in China. He has been a long time guitarist and pianist in the popular rock band “Southern Breed” in the ‘60s in Asia and “Silicon Valley Band” present days.
Bob served as Chairman of Global Monte Jade Association, considered one of the most influential Chinese hi-tech executive associations worldwide. He was the Chairman in Chinese Association of International Trade (CAIT) twice in a row and a Board member of Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce twice. He has also served both as the Commissioner and the Chairman of Santa Clara County – HsinChu County Commission. Bob has a MSEE degree from University of California at Santa Barbara. He has been very active in community services.

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•全球玉山科技协会顧問; 前全球及矽谷玉山科技协会理事长
•原北京亿品傳媒董事，上海卫宁医疗软件
•原台湾兴奇科技公司董事, 大朋電子副董事長
•原Pine Photonics共同創辦人（2005OPXT購并後上市）
•原美国矽谷Acorn Campus，Acorn Angels 橡子园创投合伙创办人
•2003 年度排行畅销书“成功还不够,快乐才是至宝”作者
•2004 金书奖得主 “创造价值, 脱颖而出”作者 – 创业投资宝典
•2005 畅销书“百战百胜商职场, 8+12 突破原则”作者
•2007年暢銷書“超快乐，其实很容易”作者
•经济日报,工商时报, 上海居, 投资有道，及多份长期文字漫画专栏
•百场美洲与亚洲大型创投与激励大型会议演说家
•70年代摇滚乐“南方血统”主钢琴师与吉他手, 今天还在Rock!
•原新加坡国立大学 (NUS) 创业投资中心客座教授
 

Presentation: LED Lighting is on in China

Ling Chen obtained his BS and MS in Physics at Nanjing University , Ph.D from State University of New York at Albany in 1993. He joined Intel and Applied Materials in the Silicon Valley , and worked there for ten years, as engineer, program manager, and product unit director. He got experiences on new product development and release, technical marketing, and program management. And he got opportunities to visit all the top semiconductor companies include Intel, IBM, TI, Motorola, Sony, Hitachi, Toshiba, STMicroelectronics, Philips, TSMC, UMC, around the world.

In 2001 he and his fellow friends went back China and found Allray Inc., and acts as president and member of board of directors of Allray Inc. Allray is an optoelectronic component design and manufacturing company in China serving global markets.

He has years of technical experiences, he has got 63 granted US patents, 30 publications. He also has co-authored a book “Entrepreneur Spirit and Group Innovation-- -Study of Silicon Valley”, and a new book “Innovation Race” just published in September 2009.
 

Udo Waibel is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Hara. Prior to joining Hara, Mr. Waibel spent over 14 years at SAP in senior management roles and has conceived, built and managed major product innovations for SAP including Employee Self-Service, Resource and Portfolio Management, Duet and Alloy (formerly "Project Atlantic"). Each of these products defined new standards for enterprise application and architecture and independently generated over $100 million dollars for SAP on an annual basis. Within Hara, Mr. Waibel is responsible for overall product development and technology. Mr. Waibel holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Business Administration from the University of Mannheim, Germany.
 

Experience
Mr. Chapman has focused on securities law, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, and international business transactions for the past twenty years. Jim has been involved in over 175 mergers, acquisitions, and financing transactions. These transactions have included public offerings, private placements, debt financings, venture capital transactions, stock sales, asset sales, mergers, reorganizations, and recapitalizations.
Practice Areas
China Practice; Corporate Transactions; Venture Capital & Emerging Companies
International; Securities; Technology; Cleantech
Admissions
Mr. Chapman is admitted to practice in California.
Education
Santa Clara University, J.D.
Santa Clara University, M.B.A.
Catholic University of America, B.A., International Relations and Spanish
Detailed Bio: http://www.nixonpeabody.com/attorneys_detail1.asp?ID=1265
 

Mr. Chen is Managing Director of Maton Venture. Maton is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist having strategic investors from US, Europe, Japan & Taiwan. Maton starts in 1997 & has invested in 33 companies across Semiconductor, Software and other Information Technology industries. As of today, Maton has 5 IPO & 5 M&A. Mr. Chen is also serving as Lead Director of AXTI, a public company on NASDAQ.

Before Maton, Mr. Chen served as CEO & President of BusTek/BusLogic from 1988 till it was acquired in 1996. BusLogic designed and marketed chip, board & software for PC & storage industries. Mr. Chen also served as Chairman of the Global Monte Jade Science and Technology Association from 1998 to 2000.

Mr. Chen received Master of Science Electrical Engineering from Loyola Marymount University & Bachelor of Science Aeronautic Engineering from Nation Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.